About

I'm Berkem. I lead the AI Ops team at Storyly, which mostly means working out which of the fast things are worth doing. AI makes building faster, and faster arrived with FOMO attached. My job is making sure we don't spend that speed on slop. The rest is tooling.

I recently moved from Turkey to Storyly's London office. More of the conversations I'd like to hear happens in a room here than anywhere else: meetups, demo nights, people building instead of posting about building. I'd like to be the one asking too many questions here.

The Human Layer

I also write The Human Layer, a newsletter for Storyly about what actually happens when people shop with AI. So far:

1. Your Shop Was Never in the Room
2. Nobody Sold Me This Bike
3. Nobody Sent an Agent

This blog

This is where I keep notes on the things I tinker with: mostly AI, fiction writing, Raspberry Pi homelabs, and the personal growth experiments. Nothing fancy, just stuff I wish I'd found written down when I was figuring it out myself.

Offline

Since the move I've gone a bit analog. I write morning pages, and I've started the Bradbury challenge.

If something here helped you, or you want to compare notes on AI, homelabs, or London meetups, find me on LinkedIn, GitHub, or Twitter. You can also follow along via RSS.